American journalist & author (1867-1937)
Naturally, when a young fellow steps up into a big position, it breeds jealousy among those whom he's left behind and uneasiness among those to whom he's pulled himself up. Between them he's likely to be subjected to a lot of petty annoyances. But he's in the fix of a dog with fleas who's chasing a rabbit -- if he stops to snap at the tickling on his tail, he's going to lose his game dinner.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Old Gorgon Graham
What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
Clothes don't make the man, but they make all of him except his hands and face during business hours, and that's a pretty considerable area of the human animal.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
When a fellow's got what he set out for in this world, he should go off into the woods for a few weeks now and then to make sure that he's still a man, and not a plug-hat and a frock-coat and a wad of bills.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Old Gorgon Graham
It's been my experience that every man has in him the possibility of doing well some one thing, no matter how humble, and that there's some one, in some place, who wants that special thing done. The difference between a fellow who succeeds and one who fails is that the first gets out and chases after the man who needs him, and the second sits around waiting to be hunted up.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Old Gorgon Graham
Consider carefully before you say a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go by.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
The easiest way in the world to make enemies is to hire friends.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
There are two unpardonable sins in this world -- success and failure.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
In all your dealings, remember that today is your opportunity; tomorrow some other fellow's.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
Culture is not a matter of a change of climate.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
Those who succeed can't forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can't forgive him for being a success.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
It isn't what a man's got in the bank, but what he's got in his head, that makes him a great merchant.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Old Gorgon Graham
You've got to preach short sermons to catch sinners.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
There's nothing comes without calling in this world, and after you've called you've generally got to go and fetch it yourself.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
I ain't one of those who believe that a half knowledge of a subject is useless, but it has been my experience that when a fellow has that half knowledge he finds it's the other half which would really come in handy.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
When the tongue lies, the eyes tell the truth.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
After forty years of close acquaintance with it, I've found that work is kind to its friends and harsh to its enemies. It pays the fellow who dislikes it his exact wages, and they're generally pretty small; but it gives the man who shines up to it all the money he wants and throws in a heap of fun and satisfaction for good measure.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Old Gorgon Graham
There's a vast difference between having a carload of miscellaneous facts sloshing around loose in your head and getting all mixed up in transit, and carrying the same assortment properly boxed and crated for convenient handling and immediate delivery.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
The great secret of good management is to be more alert to prevent a man's going wrong than eager to punish him for it.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Old Gorgon Graham